The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-09-29
Some Texas Feet.

Texas is great state, and every
thing seems to be on great scale.
The outside world can not compre-
bend our expense. Take feet, for in
stance. The ladies, mostly, seem to
have age Small feet, but with men
it is different. There is man over in
east Texas who has feet so large that
an undertaken asked him to let him
have mis- shoes for collins in which to
bury a pair of twin negro babies for
poor colored family; and another, from
the same portion of Texas, in the late
war, was reprimanded by his general
for attempting to wear snowshoes in
ranks. He was brother TO the Sab
inc county man who was so tall that,
standing in the ranks one day at re-
view, the general rode down the lines,
spied him, and called: Tell that man
to get down off that stump.
A machinist in Mitchell county
stands on six horseshoes at once and
bends them fiat.
Joe II. Harris, of Brownsville. is
said to wear No. las, and complains
that they pinch his toes.
Over in Navarro county a man
named Bingham has feet SO large that
when he stands crosswise in door his
two feet, toe to heel. fill the door from
facing to facing. He had to send off
and have his lasts made by contract.
A Throckmorton county burglar
was recently caught by leaving such
enormous tracks that no shoes could
be found to fill them. He will endea-
vor to take his tracks with him next
time; but in the meantime the author
tiles are thinking about turning him
loose, as leather is too high to take
him to Huntsville and make shoes for
him.
In Frio county, man named Gains
has feet measuring 1872 inches. Cattle
chase him eyerytime he goes out on
the prairie.
A negro over in Parker county the
other day, being attacked by vicious
dog, pulled off his shoe, gave the dog
a slap with it, and annihilated him in
stantly. The negro is named Jake
Smith.
Dallas boasts of an electro-plated
negro who only weighs 120 pounds,
vet who cannot wear less than No. 15's,
and no shoemaker will undertake to
furnish him except on annual con-
tract.
And the fair sex seems to have begun
to be represented in these big feats of
pedalism, if we may so speak, and es-
cape the just punishment of the UNI
godly. Over in Weatherford, a few
miles west of Fort Worth, baby not
over three years old wears No. 6s,
and can barely walk with her heavy
feet. Her shoes have to be boys sizes.
And the big-footed Ohio girl is
eclipsed by girl down in Erastus
county, named Maud Calisher. She
has to have No. 1913 constructed for
her feet, and it is said she is so fastid-
ious that she advertises for bids for
competing plans for architects, and
for contracts by shoemakers each
year, but we cannot vouch for this.
Out in Coleman county there is a
young lady whose feet would cause u
st. Louis belle to turn green with
jealousy in a night. Her name is Fan
ME Clark, and Miss Fannie stepped on
her partners foot recently at a dance,
and walked all over it so hard that in
fiammatiop set in and he had to have
two of his toes amputated.
We make the above little bits of
Texas development known because
partial friends have trif1ed with our
most sacred feelings by facetiously
asking us if we couldn't make more
money by contracting to trample ants
with our anti-Cinderella pedal organs
than we could in the humorous paper
line We want the world to know
that there are few people besides ST.
Louis ladies who have bigger founda-
tons than we.-TeGdS Colonel